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THENEWS. iatoUloe by Wire from Alt tteWorid. FOBEieic Tbrco men wero shot and fifteen persona dangerously injured in the Belfast riots. The head constable and private soldier were shot and ailled at Waterford by an Orangeman who mas resisting arrest. S'g. Agliardi has been appointed papal nnncio at Pekin. The statue to Denis Pideroi, ilia French philosopher, wan unveiled at Fads the other day. Baron H. de Worms has been granted a Torco from his wire Frances. London newspaper are rather inclined to ridicule the latest American,- scheme to reach the North Polo. The Hot. Arthur Wade, known as "the converted down, who preached the gospel and temperance in several Eastern towns, has
Mien from grace, deserted his wife and eloped with another woman, and is now a scene
painter in a London theater.
The widow of General Thomas Francis Meagher has presented to the city of Waterford, Ireland, two swords, two Irish brigade flags, and other relics of tho war of the rebel
lion.
A London dispatch of the 15th mat says the total votes polled in the Parliamentary elec
tions, np to that date, were: Unionists, 1,398,23; Obdstonianf, 1,32),G4$. The total number returned were: Conservatives and muonists, 386; GlaUotonians, 25 The conservatives and imkmis's now estimate the final result as follows: Conservatives. KS; Liberal Unionists, IS; Gladstonians, IS8; Pamela tea, 8a T.
P. Gill, Home-Rule SI. P., telegraphs from Dublin: -The situation looks nrst-ratc The Tories will not have a majority, and no coalition will hold tigetber. If oar people in Ireland and America can maintain their splendid calm, nothing can stop the advance cf borne
rale." FEBSOSAL.
Marsh, the Boston dry goods
prince has passed away, leaving a fortune of
10,000,000.
Samuel Packard, a captain of militia in the war of 181 died at Maiden, Mass., in his
lOlet year. , Ex-President Arthur is not gaining strength.
He is now at Sew London, Cora., recover his lost health.
Tho Rev. Angnstin Talkin, the first colored
Catholic priest ever ordained in America, cele
brated his first mass in New York. He is
coming West, and will lie established it Qnincy, HL H. K. Brown, the scntr tor, died at New-
bargh, N. Y. He was seventy-two years old.
and modeled the first bronze sutae ever cast
in this country. Associate Justice E. M. Boss, of the Cali
fornia Supremo Court, has sent his resignation
' to Gov. Stoneman, to take effect Oct I,
Bear Admiral Worden, the commander of
the famous Monitor, died at his residence at
Newport, -Y. "
Bcory VUlard, who for two years has been living in retirement in Germany, intends to re-
tan .o fit Un) tod States next fall, bat will have
bo ceaiicctroa with any of his former enter-
nrnes.'
Mrs. Caroline Benedict, aged 88, expired
at MbttviUe, Jr. Y., after fasting fifty-three consecutive days, her daily ncurishment eon-
sutting of a cop of weak tea and a few teaapoontuls of whisSy. Peter Van Pelt, 55 years old, and for nearly twenty years one of the sfcip-newa reporters of the Sew York Herald, shot himself dead at Ins home in TompkinsvUle, I r A. B. Hoaglacd, of Hew York, has given 920,000 to Aniioch College, in Ohio, to endow a chair of higher physiology. William Francis, 73 years old, an influential Dimoerat and a rich mill-owner of Tom's River, N. J., I lew his brains out with a shotgun in his garden. Governor A. P. Swineford, of Alaska, was qnietly wedded to Mrs. M. Smith, at Peocaming, Mich. Governor Swineford has left for Alaska. He will return for his bride hi November.
cultural Department, estimates the losses in
spring and winter wheat during June from drought and other causes at 11,000,000 bushels.
Latest returns show that the wheat crop
of California will exceed 70,000,000 bushels
the largest ever harvested. It is expected that California will be able io export 60,000,000
bushels.
-Three thousand tanners have been ren
dered idle by a strike, or look-out, hi fiftyfour factories at Feabody and Salem, Massachusetts.
The first tin ore yot mined on tho West
ern Hemisphere passed through Chicago tho other day from tho Black Hills on its way East The United States annually imports
930,000,000 worth of tin, and it is bolioved
that when the great deposits of that metal in the Black Hills country, covering an area of
7,000 square miles, are fully doveloped, not only will tho want of this country bo fully supplied but tho markets of the world will draw largely upon that region for their supplies.
The Provident Savings Bank at ht .boms
has closed its doors owing to the defalcation and flight of its cashier, Almond B. Thompson, a prominent Mason, member of tho light Cavalry, and President of the Harvard Club,
he being a graduate of that university. His
embezzlements will exceed $40,000.
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The Louisiana Legislature, which has Just adjourned, enacted 300 laws The Republican of the Third Congressional District of Illinois (part of the city of Chicago) have nominated William , Mason for Congress. William L. Scott has been unanimously renominated for Congress by the Democrats of the Erie District of Pennsylvania. Audtior Brown was acquitted by the Iowa i taic Senate, sitting aa a court of impeachment, of all tho charges brought against him, and has resumed his duties as Auditor. Ifae Kansas Prohibition State Convention assembled at Emporia, organised by choosing H. C Vrooman, of Osage County, permanent Chairman, and M. E. Tosmot permanent Secretary, and nominated the following ticket: For Governor, C H. Branseombe; Lieutenant Governor, T. W. Huston; Secretary of State, X. B. Klame; Auditor, G H. Langston, a colored man; Attorney General, W. S. Watte; Treasurer, William Crosby; Superintendent of Public Schools, Mrs. Dr. Sntbert; Associate Juste, E. H Paytoo, of Emporia. New Hampshire Prohilahooists met in State Convention and nominated Colonel Joseph Weniwortb, of Coneor-1, for Governor. . Resolutions were passed declaring the liquor r traffic a national question, arraigning me Republican and Democratic parties as its allies, and demanding the enforeement of the Sunday laws The Mississippi State Prohibition Convention met at Jaclieon with a large attendance, and approved the local-option law. Committees for canvass work were appointed. The Dakota Constttatiocsl Convention at Sioux Falls declined to submit to a vote of the people the question of' at once declaring the Territory a State. This ier said to be a bitter d sappointment io Judge Campbell and his following. Hie Wisconsin Republican State Convention for the nomination of officers has been enmnione-1 to meet at 1'ad'sxra Sept 8. ' Gner.il Butler will run for Congress in (he lowjll (Mass ) district nBAMCUL ATO DtPUBTBIAL. The hop crop will be a total failure in Montgomery County, New York. Sc-von hundred rog-weavers strnok in Philadelphia because their Employer refused to discharge non-union me i. A heavy fall of rain in Northern Texas was worth thousands of dotla'U to fanners and cattlemen. Tlio crop report for July of the National Pepar tment of Agrieultnrj plscw the general avcrar; of c rut !)5, agaiLst (H bit year, and VOin IH -4. 'ili'' average of winter wheat has dcci:c! frora to The condition of pprin vh at bai declined It m 96 la Juu to KJ, in c i.s.-qnenco of high temperature, d-y-111 w, - . ii' lll''!i tt r.n n ro'i'liii'tn of OttSif' '.. : f'f.-i ;:. u'. 7 points. Ify.! ma Bt i .!:. . .1 rfi as SW. 1 uc av-
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GESE&KI A ball game at Cincinnati, was interrupted by the flinging of beer-glasses at the umpire and the Brooklyn players, but the police finally quieted the mob At meeting of the Association of tho Army of Northern Virginia, at New Orleans, it was decided to gather up the remains of the Louisiana soldiers buried at Manassas Junction, for the purpose of removing them to the receptacle of the Association, at Metairie Com etery, in New Orleans. The first through train on the Canadian Pacific Road ran from Montreal to Port Moody, 2,875 miles, in 134 hours. Over thirty thousand people attended tho three base-ball contests in Chicago, between the present champions and the famous Detroit team. All three games were won by the Chicago club by the respective scores of 9 to 4, 8 to 2, and 3 io 1. In the three games the Chicagos made 28 base-hits, with a total of 47; the Detroits 10 hits, with a total of 23; the Chicagos made 11 errors, the Detroits 15; the Chicago pitchers struck oat 19 men; the Detroit pitchers 1L Colonel Gilder, & newspaper representative, has left New York with the intention of raising the American flag at the North Polo. He has participated in three Arctic voyages. He is to sail from New London on a whaler. The authorities are determined to break up all the disreputabla resorts at Long Branch. Suit has been brought in the Federal Court at Austin, Texas, against John V. and C B. Farwell and their associates in the State House contract, for importing eighty-six granite cutters from Scotland, in violation of an act of Congress. The Postmaster General has . added 453 postofness to the list of money-order offices, the bosinesa of that number having increased during the year so as to come within the provisions of the law. The Masonic Grand Lodge of Quebec has severed connection and interdicted all intsrcoarse with the Masonic Grand Lodge of England. A revolution has broken out in the vicinity of Guerrero, Mexico.
CASUALTIES. Six buildings at. Tonawanda, N. Y., were destroyed by a fire which started in a confectionery and fire-works shop. The loss Is tao.ooo. A half-dozen stores at Haverhill, Mass., were burned, the loss reaching $60,000.
Destructive hail and wind storms are re
ported from various sections of Minnesota.
At Benson three separate and distinct hail
storms .occurred, breaking over 400 panes of
glass and pounding crops and gardens into the
ground. From 3,000 to 7,000 acres of grain
were ruined. L-ghtnmg struck the court house
and several residences. At Sleepy Eye there
was a fierce wind storm. A number of build
ings were unroofed, and fifty or sixty freight ears blown over and wrecked. The Masonic
Hall was badly wrecked. There were two cur.
rents of wind, one from the northeast and one
from the northwest
Tho extensive Cold Springs Creamery was
burned at Wellsburg, Pa. Loss, $15,000.
The Linden Mills at Fort Collins, Colo.,
were destroyed by fire. Loss, $60,000.
Chapman's planing mill and lumber yard
at MayviUe, Ohio, were destroyed by tire. Lose, $29,000.
Forest fires about Lancaster, N. H., have
caused a loss of $75,000.
Forest fires in Northwestern Wisconsin
are causing tremendous loss and damage. It
is the moat disastrous fire that has ever visited
that region.
By a mine explosion at Buchtel, Ohio, one miner was instantly killed and several others
fatally injured.
The box factory of Thomas Tunis, in
Otsego street, Philadelphia, valued at $50,000, was burned. During a thunderstorm hi Erie County Pa., telegraph and telephone wires were lev
eled, and houses and barns were struck by lightning and burned. A large quantity of lumber was also consumed. The losses will
aggregate, it is said, $100,000.
Forest fires in Wisconsin ruined two hun
dred acres of cranberries near Tomah, owned
by J. L Case and others, valued at $50 000.
B. B. Wagar's mill and boarding house, 5,000,000 feet of lumber, 4,000,000 shingles
and lath, tramways and outbuildings, and Evans De Young's general store were burned at Fish Creek, near 8tn ton, Mich. ; loss, $80,000; insurance, $50,000.
CRIMES AJTO OEDtnTAlS. Sam Archer, one of a family of Indiana desperadoes, was hanged at Shoals for the murder of Samuel A Bunch. In the Tombs at New York the execution of a Cuban negro, named Chacon was witnessed by forty-six persons. The Minneapolis Post Office was broken open at night and robbed of $30,000 in money and stamps. Sidney Davis was on trial at Morgan, Texas, for rape. Five hundred men interrupted the trial and hanged Davis. Two of the Chinoso higlibindirii convicted several months ago in Ht Louis for murdering Lou Johnson ono of their countrymen, have been sentenced to be hanged Aug. 37 next C. B. McClintock, a grocer, shot his wifo fatally at Wichita, Kas., in a jealous fit, and then sent a ball through his own brcait A gang of about cigbly convicts working in a brick-yard a few miles from Pine Bluff, Ark., made a enddon break for l.borty. The guards immediato'y leveled thoir rifles and fired, killing three of the ringlcadors and mortally wounding a foatth. None escaped. Someono who had watched the operations of a miser named Frank Mooro, residing near Pennsboro, West Virginia, took from his board $-.,000 in bills and $5,500 in gold. A roving band of Turks became so enraged at the failure of om of their nnmbrr at begging supplies near Younostown, Ohio, that they threw her infant to a bear, and held her toae h- aitinnl 1 'Vt-:n i. -R W. M-m.w, Km. .iti-nfi "f Howard County, 'ifM1, lifti ii.nl i'ii :-vi00 of the county V ltin !. t-a Port and, Oregon, uu Altaian
named Dnpont poisoned his young son and himself on account of domestic trouble. In their residenco in Lexington avenue, Now York, Adrian Orucy and his sister killed themselves with revolvers. Ho was a merchant in Beaver street The convicts at the Dado coal miues in Georgia revolted, and 150 of ttio men intrenched themselves. An artillery and a militia company wore ordered to the scene. Stove Renf roe, a notorious murderer and desperado, was hanged byamobatLivingston, Alabama James J. Mason lias been arrogtodat Philadelphia for embezzling $f!0,000 from Chaffee Brothers, railway and bridge contractors of Now Orleans. Hugh M. Brooks, alias W. H. I.onnox Maxwell, convicted of murdering Charles Arthur Prellcr, has boon sentenced to be hanged in St Louis Aug. 37. Charles Gray made an assault upon Miss Anna Bleistle at Upper Sandusky, Ohio, oh tho 10th of July, and oh the HtH of Jnly he entered tho prison at Columbus to aorve a fivoyears sontenco for tho crime. John Booth, a rich stockman, is in jail at San Antonio, Texas, having been arrested at Helena, Ark., for killing two murderers of hie brother twenty-five years ago. Thoro is much excitement over the arroat
HEBE AND THESE. The United ire land comments on the British political situation in a somewhat raging style. Among other things it says: "The tricksters, soreheads, and mountebanks who are about to assume office in the present tremendous crisis in English history have in common but one dominating impulse, to gTab nt the emoluments of power. This is indeed a grotesque sacrifice. It is an if a rascal had indued himself in the vestments of the priest for the purpose of robbing the altar." Again it says: "Gladstone's opponents deliberately concocted tho Belfast tragedies for political purposes. Murder, particular or wholesale, will not stop them any more than it did Ireland's enemies heretofore. The Marquis of Salisbury, Joseph Chamberlain, and Lord Randolph Churchill are as unscrupulous as Pitt, Clare, or Castloreagh, but they are punier." A tebbific rain and thunder storm struck Wooster, Ohio, and done considerable damage to fruit trees and crops, especially com. The effect on the English sparrows was something wonderful. In many places throughout the city the ground was literally covered with dead birds which had been knocked off the trees and drowned, and it was necessary to gather them np in buckets. Stephen Sattndebs, a prominent farmer, living near Sandusky, Ohio, was thrown from a wagon by the running of his horses, and fell under the wheels of the vehicle and was run over and killed. Deceased was 52 years old and leaves a family. ACTING SECRETABY OP THE TREASURY Faibchild summarily dismissed a chief of division and two clerks in his office, for discreditable conduct in connection with the examinations for promotions. It seems the chief of the division had been instructed to prepare examinations for promotions in his office, and after doing so surreptitiously furnished copies of the questions to two of the clerks under him. This fact was brought to the attention of the head officer, who made inquiry, and ou the denial of the truth of the charges, reported them to the Acting Secretary as persons unworthy to hold a position under the Government. A high official of tho Treasury Department states that he is convinced that this practice has been long in vogue, and that the authorities want to put a stop to it. At Fostoria, Ohio, Mrs. John March met with a peculiar accident which may cost her her life. She waB on a ladder fixing a stovepipe in the yard, when a hog came along and upset the ladder. Mrs. March was thrown violently to the ground, and her leg was broken so badly that the bone protruded through the flesh. The bones were so badly splintered that the limb had to be amputated above the ankle.
Augustus Duvai., who was sentenced
in August, 1880, from Oceana County, Mich., to fifteen years in the Jackson
penitentiary for rape, has been pardoned
by the (Governor. The advisory pardon board, after a thorough investigation, reported unanimously their belief in the prisoner's entire innocence.
In the Senate on tho 15th Inst, the reports of the Committee on Privileges and Elections in
the case of Senator Payne were ordered printed
in one document and were placed on file to be called up at any time, as tpecial businesa. The Sonute resumed the consideration of the river and harbor appropriation bill, and without coming to a vote adjourned. In the House, Mr. Randall, from the Committee on Appropriations,
reported the joint resolution continuing In force until the 31st of July, the provisions of ihs joint
resolution providing temporarily lor sue exlMnditure of the Government. Passed. Mr.
Holman submitted she conference report on the
legislative appropriation Din. xno ioi lowing bills were passed : From Committee ou Labor,
to prevent tho employment of convict labor, and alien labor upon public buildings and other public works. Amending the act to prohibit the importation and immigration of foreigners and a it ns under contract or agreement to perform labor in the United States. To protect the mechanics, laborers, and servants in tho District of
Columbia in thoir wages. Directing tue commissioner of Labor to make an investigation in
regard to convict abir intns united states. The bill extending the provisions of the eight.
hour law to letter carriers gave rise to soms opposition, and pending action tbe House ad
journed.
THE MARKETS.
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LOGAN TO THE SOLDIERS.
He Denounces the Policy of the Gov
ernment in Neglecting the State's Defenders.
The Patriot Is Treated with Ingrati
tude, While an Arch-Traitor 1$ Rewarded,
At Ottawa, Kas,, oh ihf 3d of July
the W estern Chautauqua Assembly celebrated Grand Army day. Hen. John A. Logon was Iho orator of the occasion, and in the course of his address he took oeeaBioh to criticise Cleveland's vetoes of pen
sion bills. On this subject h ? said :
Bo. then, niv ootarades anil mends, tue
Wilr i at last ended, peace has spread her white wings over this great country, and it is nW for us. as patriots, as soldiers, and
citizeus. to live and develop iththe Rrowth of th United States of America in intelligence and morals and in everything that
makes a people great and good. Ami to you, my old comrades, let me say one word. I dislike very much to have to say it, but after what the government has done
necessity has been laid upon me to Bay it.
lou Have m yourruuKS men 'vnoareunrortunatj. They are cripples, bliud, and poor, anil totter on the streets objects of chari'.y; you, my comrades, know the wants of these once "stalwart fellows, who gave
the best davs of their lives to save tue
Unio:i. You must see that posts are or. gonized all over this great country so that every disabled soldier, every poor cominib'i may'lw taken care of; and if, perchance, ho may not be able to show the exact spot whew he got his wound, he could show whether it was f rom a friend or from an enemy. You know that his government owes him care, being unfortunate, poor, ftud unable to help himself. But with such or-
canuations as I have ittterre.t to you win
yourselves be prepared to take care Of your comr ule when some misguided President shall veto his bill.
It has been said of me all over this coun
try: "Logan's business is to look after the aoldi-jr." I do pay attention tt) other mottors of notional importance, but, so help mo
lioa, n 1 can only say mat 1 nave neon faithful and true enough to watch over the
internals of the patriot who saved this country, so that it became my house and your house if I have taken care of that poor man and helped him in his suffering
ona distress t am sansnea uoa win iuko care of me.
There is a creat deal said, my comrades,
about the frauds perpetrated by unjustifiable claims made in order to secure pensions. One word in reference to them. I do not make the sweeping assertion that all pensions that have been gronied have been right, for I do not know; but I do know, for a certainty, that there is not a man who served through the war, who had slept
amid snow and ice, wind and ram, by sunlight and starlight, in dampness and darkness, that came out of that service with his life prolonged. I do not believe that there is a man who went through (he service, no
matter what some people say, who was,
after it, as physically competent as he would have been had he not seen the servi'io.
I know hundreds of men who ought to .
have pensions who have not got them because of their pride, and who now cry out franc, against the Govemn:ent;but.my conntry men, I would rather have a few frauds
so-called although they amount to nuie than to have hundreds denied pensions who are justly entitled to them. I would
take the chances of making a siigut mis
take in that respect. I would a thousand timet rather that any soldier who had a bill for a pension of $90 a yoar, who hud served his c juntry, whether he could prove it ex
actly or not, should have it signed oy tne President than that an arrant kuave and arch traitor should have $4,000 a year. My fellow-citizens when I gel to talking to m r old comrades, and there are many of you here who served under me and undVr my command while we were in that service and I claim nothing for myself the men who carried the muskets were the men who fought the battles; but while you were tramping day and night around Vicksburj.; and Shilo, and freezing in the storms around Donelson, and marching at the wont of command from one end of the country to the other, young und strong, you did aot believe then that the time would ever come that any man, no matter what his political affilations were, would evet complain of a little pension granted to a soldier; and there is not a man within sound of my voice in this vast audience whe was in the army himself but who knows and must confess that during the war, when it was doubtful as to which would be successful, when these boys returned home they would not wont for gratitude. V'hy should rich men who fattened on the blood of 300,000 men now complain if men are pensioned because of their services? May God forgive mo if I ever forget there is one thing we can say to the Government practice what injustice toward the old soldiers, faithful servants of the Union, you may the time will not bo long until they are post your reach. A few more years and there will be no Grand Army of the Republic. In a few more years we will have to go to the cemeteries, the hillsides, the brooks, the marshes, and rivers, to ascertain the history or wants of the soldier. Tho evidence of decay is upon ns to-day. If I have shown weakness in your presence to-day I hope that, in the light of our past struggles, you will forgive me. While I may have other state matter i that require a Bhn ro of my attention, your cause and just richts will never be forgotten. The battle
for justice may be a hard oce, but it cannot
now be a loner one, ana alter we nave
finitihed our labors here we shall join the great silent army who shall not muster gain until the last roll-call shall have been
ounoea. A Democratic Outrage.
. The Democratic party cat .not escape tho
responsibility for the deft of the Des
Moines Bivar land bill. This just measure was disapproved by the Democratic President, nasaed over his objections bv the He-
publican Senate, and the veto sustained by
the Democratic House, tne itepuuiioans in both branches being practically solid in support of the bill. Tne Eepublicau party can well afford to accept and defend its share of the record ihus made. The action of the President is naturally provoking great indignation in Iowa, whero all the facts pertaining to the Dcs Moines Hirer land matter are well understood. Thirty years ngo, when mof-t of the settlors made their entries, it was generally conceded that the land above the forks of the riv r was open to pre-emption. The settlers bocght tho 1 mil, paid for it, and tbe Government now holds over $70,XMI so obtained from the farmers. In many cases patents weie issued to the men ('lereland now proposes to evict. A few years after the first entries were made the Kuprome Court of the United Stales took the same view as the Government officers and I he settlers, and d- tared that the land above the forks did in." !.i l.ii t tho navigation company, but
as suuseiineiitly passea tending the grant. As id Wilson construe this have 11 0 application as piion settlers, but if it .ction p'lt 011 it by Clove -i an outrageous piece of
gtess suoulit teel tiauiid rice peri tatted under its claim their farms be'iiem from the (iovemi, according to the de- . ireuie Court, thev were
received over $5i00,0no, so that it might well have Ix-on content without seeking to extend its grant, evict settlers, anil grab tho land tho Government has sold to tho farmers. Yet the Democratic President and the Democratic House will not allow the Government to bring suit in itii namo to protect the rights of the settlors who purchased from it in good faith. Cleveland's tnesnugc vetoing the Des Moines lliver land bill displays either a fat-witted incapacity to understand iho facts of the matter or it fixed determination to give Now York laild sharks the preference pvBr Western settlers. In the debate in (he Bsnate the. Iowa Seua'oin fuiriy picked ilie bones df the Veto message and left the attorneys for tlio land-slmrk company without a peg on which to hang t,heir arguments, but still there were enough Democratic votes In the House to sustain Die Wall-street odiiiiiiistr.it ion and defeat the bill for the reliof of the Iowa settlers. Chicago Tribune. MR, REED AS A LEADER.
NATIONAL LAW-MAKERS.
Brief Summary ot the PreceediBfps of Conjjrreaav.
ROBBED BY ITS CASHIER.
A St. Louis Savings Bank Fails Through the Dishonesty of One of Its Officials.
lie Is 11 Manor Creat HoUtuess, Resources, and (Jilt. !T,etttr to Ciuciiiuati Pln-iuiror.l While Blaine was Speaker and Senator there appeared upon the seer.e a Congressman by the name of lieed. He was a large, lmyish-natured man, and Id reputation slowly spread, and became first observable when he hrul a celebrated campaign to make for re-elect io 1, when ho bravely got through. Ho remained over in the House after BlaiiiSt Kryei and Hale had le't it to go to the KeUatc. It wrts s- On seen that ho
Was going to keep up tho V puta'ioh of Lis Btttte iu Coneress. At the present time he probably hold.? as high a position as Mr. Blaine ever held on the floor, and a higher oue than either Fryo or Halo ever had. At the same time the combination of qualities iu him trhieh have attracted attention is entirely (liferent from uhy of tho others; He is neither witty, like Iitaihe, hdr assumptive, like Hale, nor hiilitaijr and stiff, like i'Vje. He is genuine nhd hearty always talcing joy in encounter, striking hard strong blows, yot entertaining no malice. He can rise and make a speech otter some ono has spoken on a topic not previously discussed, and follow that opponent in a general impeachment with boldness, resources, and wit, all expended together in a sort of massive charge, wherein the man seems to take a stature above that which he holds in tho general concern and intercourse of things. It is said that he is really a poor politician at home, does not comprehend numbers and forces, as Hlaine does, and tr ists to general behavior and principles fee bis success. Nature has done a go id deal for him, giving him it larce, wholesome, powerful
' body, with voice and health to match, and : if lie came from any large city of the West , or the Middle States, or the South, he j would probably attract more attention than
he does. The leadership of the House has gone into his hands, and you seldom find
huu abashed or overthrown.
I heard Mr. Dorshcinier say when he was
m Congress that on one occasion tU'
Sneaker had c illed him to the chair, and
Abiam Hewitt of New York made 11 speech
on the whisky question full of strange and
original afhrmatious. i hey were so novel that Mr. Dorsheimer, with the gavel in his hand, sat wondering Whether they could all be overthrown. Then, he paid, Reed got up, who had already attracted tho attention of some distinguished English visitor for his bearing some remarkable resemblance to William Shakspeare. Kced made a
formidable attack upon Hewitt's position, bold and trenchant, with uicnt in every sentence. Dorsheimer 6at and looked at him with a mixture of wonder arid admiration. Jn short Mr. lieed, being relieved from a multitude of sharp colleagues in Congress,
bad now set uu for himself, ne seems to
be a man of natural powers, only requiring
onporrunry to get ease, and to develop to
the fullest force.
Mb. Hoab offered a resolution In the Senate on the 9th Inst., calling on the President for information as to tho seizure or detention in any foieiim imrts (if any American vcssols, tho pro-, te.its or aliened CfttiBes therefor, and What efforts have boeil ttlndS to nfovhto rrdrSM fur "iioh seizures and to provont thalr recurrence. The resolution Wont Ov.-f. Mr. Call Offered h fosoltitioii cal't.ig on UM president to dirbcl the American rnprosontiv five ill Mexico to investigate the iritth 1 1 stateI11 'nt.. niftdS In tlio newspaperx that citizens t the United States ate confiilod lit Mexl.-i.n dungeons without trial for alleged offenses against the laws of Mexico, ami that tHcir final trial litis lioeii postponed without ettuso, and roiuir-
statements are found to bo true) to i pbintment Of a receiver over the bank, demand the trial of such persona Metano that Cashier Thompson hf.d not
SW-xJe.l.areT tae been at the. bank since" tb 12th; that a nomination of John Goode, of Vitginii, to partial examination of his books Stww a v.., Kniieitor (Icnornl of tho United State. In ,itt,.i( nf over &KI.0O0. and that it is be-
tl e House of Kepresentatiycs a motion to refer 1 jieved ft fuller examination will swell the
Bf.go of the President votcins! tlio bill granting a pension to Sarah Ann r.radley gave rise to an animated debate, in th course of which tlio Executive was arraigned by SIcnsrn, (iro-svo-nor, Harrows, MoConmf, and BouMlc. and defended bv Mr. Springer. Tho mom age was
referred WO to 118. Tho President sent mo
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Almond B. Thompson Charged with Stealing a Large Sum from the Institution. t, Louis dispatch. I The Provident Havings Bank of this city has dosed its doors and made au assigninentj Almond B. Thompson, the Cashier, having absconded. Carlos 8. Greeley, a
heavy depositor, njea a petition ror tue ap
pellator Allison on the Retrenchment
Claims of Democratic Congressmen. In discussing amendment)! to the legis
lative appropriation bill increasing the salaries of the assistant treasurers at Balti
more and Boston beyond the amounts in tho House bill to-day, Senator Allison, Chairman of the Committee on Appropriations, contradicted and repudiated the claim made in the House that that body had saved 800,000 in cutting down appropriations in this bill. He showed that $100,000 of the leduotion claimed applied to the expenses
cf the two houses, which are always that
much less in the short session than m tho long session; that $217,000 of it was from a reduet:on of the Pension Office specifically ordered iu the bill of last Con-gi-ess.; that $200,000 of it was in the expenses connected with the Internal Bevenue iinrean. and that the reductions of appro
priations for that bureau would be in the interest of moonshiners and illicit distillers; that $77,000 came from an omission to appropriate that sum for the mint at San Francisco (which would have to be taken
out of the permanent appropriation under
the silver act of 187S), and the rest or tne reduction claimed in the House came from
ciitiiiicr down and scaling '.he salaries of
olhcers here and there, as in the cases un dor consideration.
After amendments had been adopted increasing the compensation of the Com
missioner of Pensions anc; tne Lomnus
sinner of Patents from $1,000 to $5,000 the
bill was passed. ivasfttiifyfoii telegram. The Coal-Oil Senaturial Boodler. The crotest sent to the Senate Com
m tree on Privileees and Elections by tho
Hiinublican members of the Ohio delega
tion in tho House is a serious sequel to the reinsal of that committee to order an investigation into the charges of bribery
nnninst Senator Pavne.
The action of tho committee was tho
more reprehensible in view of the oxcep ticnallv disgraceful and abandoned charac
tor of the Democ-atic Marty in Ohio, as
uliinvn in the late Stale election.
That the Senate could not afford to dis-
re.md the presumptive evidence against
Pnvne is sufficiently clear f:.vm tho popu
lar indicrnation aroused by its action
The llenublican meiubeis f-ay in their
communication to the committee:
"There is a feeling in Ohio that tbe State has been deeply wronged by your supposed action. The undersigned are convinced
that the facts and records, or some of them.
laid before vour honorable comnrttee by
our colleagues, Messrs. Little and Bnttorwoith. have in the press of your other dutu s failed to receive that consideration and vveioht which thev un rit and should
have at oiir hands. We are informed that
there 'additional testimony in the hands of Mes-rs. Little and Hutterworth which
thev ask 1111 oiinoituuity to pvesi-nt to you,
As an indication of the character t f the
"ii.liliiiaii.il evidence" the letter from those
gcntlini 'ii to Senator Hoar, Chairman of the committee, is interesting. They claim
that iu oue case of the alleged transfer of a
vote fimn Pendleton to l'uvue the ones
tiou was squarely and seriously addiessed to witness. "How much money does ho (the
Representative) want?'" This, together with tho other evidence which they state or intimate that they will preti.mt and tho general popular demand for a leoiicning of tho case, is more limn enough to warrant a re-examination by the committee, indeed, it is not clear how its meiubeis can refuse a rehearing upon any other hypothesis than that they take ground that the iiieniliem of tlio body to which they In-long nre above judicial procedure.- -Chicaua 't'ribunr. Whii.r Mr. Cleveland was vetoing why didn't he veto tho bill granting r pension of S'2,0H a year to the widow of General Hancock? it would have been an act of injustice, it is true; but not more so than bis refusal Io sign the bill confcrrm,' $000
aytarnjioii the widow ot wmer.il uaviu j Hunter, 11 lvgnlar 111 my of.'.eer who served ! his country well. There is Mich a thing as I .Miiuiuli.iiev tti1 iirfioii. Imf tile 1'resitlmil is
flmoHiit to a much larger sum. The. court appointed W; II.- Thompson, of tho Commercial Bank, receiver Of (he instit ution. Until to-day no outsider imagined for a moment that the bank was embarrassed, mid no ran was made nnon it. The inves-
House a messago vetoing tho hill tor a public- tication of the books had been under way Sw&", i.'2r?.tifaS: since Tuesday morning. At noon to-day
commodated at a rental cf $3,850 per annum. A Housk bill nutliorlr-ing tho Chicago, Burlington and Northern ltailway tobridgo tbe MIssissipi Biver at Dubuque, Iowa, passed the
Senate on tho 10th inst A resolution was ii.lnhteil liV tlio S. nntn calling on thn President
for iliforiiiiitioll as to Win seizure or detention of Alnericail vessels in fSratgiuiorU. Ti.e Sonato discussed tlio Hennepin Cninu project at
length, but did not rtocli vote on It, Artor warn! debate tho HOnso . adopted a
fesoiution sotting aifart JUly 13 for tec consideration of such business i mar be
i! imain, and open to on
i v the Now lork loudiitlo on the basis of a ict which was either
mi niti:'.'.) t! n i. i Congress with corrupt it- ..t .1 t' I 1 falsely construed since. li, . ill.. 1 - v. 1 1 gross was bound to corr,. t ti. . i. ..:;i.ti.i. injustice done the set-
tl. ri, J'he Ji ivii . tiou company expended ! apparently unacquainted v.ilU it, 4iK(ian. oulv $330,(fy.- u ijaproTiug the river, and oyoft Journal.
presented by the Ways and Means Committee, hot to Ineludo. any bill raising revenue, the
hialli object being W allow the House 10 roacn tho ibint resolution reported from tho Ways atid Moaila Committee looking to tho iiayiug out ot some of the surplus ir.ouey In tho Treasury. The House passd the general deficiency appropriation bill. Mr Morrison reported the Randall tariff bill advorsoly from tho Ways Hud Means
committee.
A nlrx authorizing tho construetlon of a
bridge across the St. Louis Biver, between tho
States of Minnesota and Wisconsin, was lavora.bly reported in tho Henote on the lath lust. The Senate passed tho Huujo bill granting pensions to tho soldiers and sailors of tin Mexican
v. ar. Ill considering tne river and naroor um
the St-nato adopted an item of Saco.'iUI
for tho Hennepin Canal. A bill was
atroducod in the Senate ana r. iorroa 10
ston all payments of imblio money to
J auios B. Ends, his associates, or assigns, for
past, present, or future wors at tue mourn 01 too Mississippi Kivcr until further ordored by Con-
otcss. Tho raifrOad-atronioy 0111 was roponou to tho Senate materially amonded. No Conjrossman, according to Its provisions, shall act
1,8 ine legal represt-nsai.1 vv ui any wiibiumwu whoso interests aro or may become the subject if Congressional legislation. A bill to reimburse Joan Louis I.egioo for services romlored t.nd money expended in bringing to tho Vnited Ktatos and procuring the surrender of Sitting Bull and number of his followers was
loi.t ooioro tne uouse. iuu emiiu 1.. i..i Mid Is indorsed by Maj. Urothorton, tho United Ktates officer who received tho surrender. A bill appropriating SiO.OO for the erection of a monument to mark the birthplace of Abraham Lincoln, near Hodgosvillo, Ky., was introduced in the Ileus bv Mr. Kooertson, a Democratic Representative from that State. Tho Senate e.meii lineiit to the legislative appropriation bill, liicroasini! from S4.000 to $5,0(W the salaries
i the Coniiiissionors of Penslocs and Pa
tents. Was eohourred in by mo nuusu.
The resolutions and memorial of the Ohio cd-
Itorsi urging the reopening of the Payne case, rere referred to tho Committee on Privileges ilhd Elections bv tho Senate On tho 13th inst A ).n posed amendment to tho sundry olvil bill to a,ppropriato $37,30) for the purcuaso of tho
scliool ana lailll ttt tue i-arusie imiisu oimw was submittal ti tho Senate by Ssnator Toller (Col-ra to.. Tlio bill to appropriate 8350,003 for the establishment and erection of a military post near Depvor, Col., wii favorably . iu,vt. .1 1,-.,.,. tlm KBimta Military Committee."
The Senate pass.nl a bill appropriating $25,000
lorauiomniuntat stony roint, n. rocoiumoniorate tho reiolutionary battle tbora. The President sent the following nominations to the (senate: David Turple. of Indianapolis, to be United States Attorney for tho District of Indiana, vice John E. Laiiib. resiKueil. George C.
:iiunson, to be assayer of tho United States at Denver, Col. Postmasters John M. Wright, at Temple, Texas; John Ii. Walsh, at Soi-th Chicago. 111.: George L. Wright, at
Denlson, Iowa; William H. McAllister, at Vinton, Iowa; John C. Anderson, atF.aglo Bock, Iowa. Representative Motenn, Chairman of the Invalid Pension Cominilteo of tho House, presented a report sustaining tho voto of the pension of $50 per month voted to the widow Of Gen. Hunter, as the It gal rate of S30 has boon allowed by the Pousion Office, and the claimant is in no need of an increase. The House concurred in the Senate amendment to the legislative appropriation bill relative to the publication of tho records of the rebcllion.with tho amendment providing forthe publication of papers relating to tho defense in tho case of Pitz-John Porter. The Senate was asked for a conferonoo upon the whole bill. Several measures affecting tho tobacco trade were passed by the Hon no, and also bills amending the statutes in relation to the immediate transportation of dutiable goods. The joint resolution directing payment of the Treasury surplus on tho public debt was taken up and debated at length, but no action taken. . Tun river and harbor bill oooupied tho exclusive attention of the Senate on the 14th inst. The amendment proposing to appropriate S35J,000 for tho purchase of the Portage Lake Canal and the Lake Superior and Iron Company Canal was agreed to yeas, 33 nays, 31. The amendment iu relation to tho Calum-st Biver was agreed to. Tho amendment accepting tho grant of the Illinois and Michigan Cauiil. and for the construction of tho Hennepin Cunal was adopted yeas, 27; nays, 20. The House passed Col. Morrison's joint resolution directing payment of tho surplus in tho Treasury on the public debt The voto stood 200 yeas to 05 nays. In tho debate preceding the passage of the resolut:ou Mr. Hewitt N. Y.I denied that tho passage of this resolution would give employment to a single man. Instead of giving employment to 1(0,000 men, 100,000 men would be dismissed from employment on the very first day that the public realizod that tho stability of the Treasury was impaired. Mr. Randall (Po.1 said this was not a silvor question at all. It was a question whether wo had tho money in the Treasury undisposed of, and against which there Is no legitimate claim, to the extent of S50,000,00d or 570,000,000 that nuqht be used in liquidation of the public debt Mr. MoKinley (Ohio) thought the resolution a remarkable ono. It was a proposition coining from tho party in accord with the administration to compel the President of the Cnitod States and tho Secretary of tho Treasury to do that which thoy had always had the power to do. Ho stated that in sixteen months tho Democratic administration had called but $58 000,000 of Government bonds lor redemption, nnd compared it with oach sixteen mouths of Bepublicau administration since 18S1, which had avoraged $la;l,000,000. Mr. McKiuloy stated that the Democratic majority in the House appoarod to bo at odds with the President. Tho only thing upon whioh that party wsh in posit.vo accord wai. in getting th offices. Mr. Morrison And v o aro getting along onlv middling at that Mr. Hcndcnon of Iowa favbrod tho resolution l o. auso it enforced a BopubUeau proposition. Now that the Democratic party bad dotermiuod that tho pension bills should no; be
passed, ho was in favor of paying out tlio surplus on tho publio debt Mr. Morrison, of Illinois, denied that tho resolution was a condemnation of the administration. It loft the uuestion of reservo in the statutes where it was to-da-. If it was law r ow that 310 1.000,00!) was to be reserved, H would be law after tho passage of the resolution. Did the gentleman from Sow York believe that S70.000.000 extra si rplns was roiiiied in the Treasury because thirewasa Democratic administration? I.ufiigaif s Logic Beware of the man who knows of nothing worth living for but to love all mankind. It is not reasonable; it is not to be indorsed, either, as human nature. I never had any great desire to buck all humanity, but if any one else wants to take a turn at the bull-wheel he can
have my chanco and I will hold his coat for him. The trouble seems to be this: Every man is on the wateh that sonic other man does not cheat him, but seems to forget that lie himself wants just as much watching (often more) than tho other man does. Virtue is the standard of till perfection. In these times it is often a pretty hard job to honor it, yet it can be made the most shining of all qualities, as tlio more it is polished by practice the more beautiful it becomes. There is one fac1; in humanity that I can not fully explain. There is no ono who ever had tho delirium tremens but knows th.-it his "tremens" skunked any other living man's, and seems to enjoy bragging about it. Chicago Lodger,
the Directors decided to close the doors. As soon as this action became known throughout the city, large crowds of depositors congregated arouttd the bank, anxious tc know the nature of the embarrassment,
and calling upon some one to inform them. No one answered the call, and the excitement increased uctil it became necessary to Call the police, who are now upon the scene to quell any possible disturbance. The largest number of depositors are clerks and poor men and women, so that the failure will not affect to any great extent (he commercial interests of the city. The President of the bank, J. S. Garland, has been absent from the city for about sit months and the cashier has assumed his duties as well as his own. The hank statement of yesterday shows total assets of $l,lo8,2SI and total liabilities of $985,782. The amount of the deposits is $26,649. The directors Of the bank say that they will not be able to realize on their nnnarent assets to their full extent.
Thompson, the absconding cashier, is a
graduate or Jttarvaru ionege, ana siuce 110 has held his responsible position in this
city has been regfirded as a man of sterling integrity. He is President of the Harvard Club of this city and of the Light
Cavalry, and a prominent Knight lem-
nlar. He announced his intention tho
latter nart of last week of aocom-
nanvmo- the Licrht Cavalry to the State
Encampment at Sweet Springs; .nd it
was cencrallv suDnosed that he was there-
Advices from that point, however, state
that he has never been near the camp, and
it is supposed that he has loined tne army
of defaulters in Canada. No cause for his defalcation can be assigned other tha 1 fust livinir. for he has never been known to
sneclilale.
The amount of Cashier Thompson's bond was $30,000. Tho bond was signed by Carlos S. Greeley and the cashier's father, who is a wealthy retired liquor-dealer. W. H.
Thompson, the receiver, says that the bank
has been carefully managed, and that few,
if any, bad loans exist. It is nis opinion
that the depositors will be paid in tun Man v of the stockholders sav they are will-
in to turn their str ck into a fund with . . , n 1.1
which to pay tne depositors aouar im dollar. PARTISANS WARNED.
A Presidential Order Defining the Ile-
lationa of Officeholders to Politics
Public Servants Notified to Take Bat-
Seats in Conventions and Caucuses.
Washington special.
As the Conijreasional campaign is now opening It has occurred to the President to inform the office-holders that while their political rights and privileges are not impaired by taking office, the spectacle of a bread-and-ohiomargarine brigade managing the politics of the country is not edifying, is not in harmqny with the real publio sentiment, and he will have none of it. If office-holders will attend to the business for which the country pays them their salaries they will not have anymore time than other people have for making up slates and fixing primaries ar-d working np spontaneous enthusiasm lor candidates for CongresB or the Legislature or other offices, who will of course expect, in case of success, to be repaid in kind, and the President drops the employes of the country a gentle hint that it is not a political party that is paying their salaries, and consequently it is not a political party that is entitled first and foremost to their services. It will bjoced that the President is careful not to soy that Federal office-holders must not be delegates to conventions or do other political work, but he makes it pretty plain that tboy must not take tho leading parts in managing the politics of their counties and States. The following executive order from the President is sufficiently explicit to explain itself: Exkcotivk Mansion, I WAsnrxo-ros, D. C, July 14, lSfirt. f To tho Heads of Departments in tho Service of the General Government : I deem this iiprv.p.'r time to especially warn all subordinates in the several departm.'nta and all officeholders under tho General Government against the use of thoir officiul positions in attempts to control political movements In their localities. Omcoholdersi ore tho agouts of the people, not their masters. Not only is their timo and labor duo to the Government, but thoy should scrupulously avoid, in thoir politics,! a -tiou, as well as in tho discharge or their o!lloial dot .-, o!f iviing by a display of ibtruslvo partisanship thoir neighliorB who have relations with thorn as public officials. Thoy iliould also coiutatly remem
ber fhat tnoir parry menus, rroui wuoai ..uy have receive 1 prefoi incut, have not um ste tht with tho power of arbitrarily managing
i.oliticol affairs. Thev havo n right as otn.
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Phov havo n j right as otlieo-
olders to dictato tho political act ou of Uiolr
party assoclatos, rr to turouio rre uom 01 action within piirty linos by motliods and practices which provont every useful and justina 1 purpose of party organisation. Tho indu 'lice of Federal oftiues nhould not bo folt in the manipulations of political priniory niootings and nominating conventions. Tho use by taaao ofliolttls cf thoir positions to compass their selection as delegates to lolttleal oo-jvontiens is indooont and unfair, and
proper regard for the proprieties and requirements of official placo will also provont nhoir assuming the activo conduct of political camnaiens. Individual interest rthd activity In
potiticul affairs r,ro by no means condemned. Officeholders aro neither dlsfronohtsod nor forbidden tho exorciao of political privileges, bat their privileges are uot enlarged nor Is rjioir dutv to party :.ncrca3td to pernicious activity by ofltcchfllding. A just discrimination in this regard between the things a oitiran may properly do and tho purposes for which a public ouico should not be used iu oasv in tho light of a eorroot appreciation of tho 'r-slatloii between tho people and those intrusted with ofilolal place and a consideration of the necessity under our form of governmental political action tree from official coercion. You ar requested to communicate tho substance of these views to thosa for whose guidance they are intendod . Gnovsn Cms VK and, MEMENTOS OF ES. MEAUHER. Ih Veteran's Sword anil Irish Ilriirmle Flag Tiifetm o Waterfowl, Ireland. (Now York telegram.) The steamer Nevada, which sailed yesterdav for Liverpool, carried the swords, two o'f the Irish Brigade flags, and other relics of the commander of the Irish Brigade that havo hung for over Iweuty years in the Twenty-third street home of his widow, Mrs. Elizabeth Meagher. These relics, with Gallagher's life-sizo painting of Gen. Meagher, unveiled at Clnokeriug Hall on Decoration Day by the Irish-American T'uion, were placed m charge of Mr. .Tames Brice Killen, B. K, to be presented to the Young Ireland Society of Uen. Meagher's native city, Waterfoni.
INDLINA STATE NEWS.
The people of Decatar are indulging
in a great deal of speculation as to tha cans of f he rise of water in the St. Mary's,
on whose banks that city is located. Here
tofore in- the summer months the mw could be waded at any point. About two weeks ag the water in the river rose fully three tent. Upon investigation it watl found th t at the time, and for a week be
fore, theie had been no ranis along the
entire rivsr and its tributaries. The
is as clear as crystal, and very cold,
thing never known of this river before by
the oldest citizens. Many contend that
from son inexplicable cause luge Springs)
have opened up in the bed of tne stream
This theory is plausible, and is sustained
in (he fa st that in boring a hole a few feet in the river-bed, six miles east of the city, S stream of water fully three inches fa
diameter- forced its way out. A pipe was
put in, and the Water poured oat at the top of the pipe, which was fowr feet above the surface. If the present state of water and tamncraturo continues the St. Mary's will
be stocked with broci trout by local fa bmmon.
The annual reunion and military en
campment of the Tri-State Veterans' opoj
Military Association, of Ins States of. unto,
Indiana, and Michigan, will held at Port Mayne, from August. 19 to 23, inclusive. Tents and rations will hot
furnished all veteran and militia who job
the Asse siation. The Govern w of Indiana is President, and the Governors of Ohio and Michigan are Vice Presidents of tho
Association. It is expected that this reunion will be the grandest military display witnessel since the surrender . at Appomuttax aud grand review at Witshingtoai te 1865. Thomas Luck and Leonidas llryson, convicts who were confined in the Southern. Prison, he former to serve fifteen years for being implicated with JackGroarkin the murler of an old man in New Albany two years ago, and the latter to serve aterm of nineteen years for the murder of his brother-in-law at Greonsborg, Decatur County, have been paroled by the Governor. A voting lady of about 18, who lived in Johnson County, near Bengal, took what she supposed was a dose of quinine. Shortly after she was seized iritis convulsions, and died in agony within tas how and a h df . The symptoms were thoM of strychnine poisoninrf. No poet -mortem was held. the was a lady of excellent standing. It. 3. Weith, of Elkhart, some time ago secured 5,000 silkworm eggs from the Government. Nearly all of the eggs havo hatched out, and some of the worms havo commer ced to spin their cocoons. They are attracting a great deal of attention from th 5 fact that it is one of the first attempts 'o introduce silk-culture into Unit part of lie State. Oni of the old est residentu and wealthiest men in Clark County died at his homo in Owen Township recently, very suddenly. He was about 75 years of age, and had resided in the county since his boyhood. His weUth is estimated at $2500 part of which consists of 2200- iicres"of land, on which he paid annually $900 taxes. Tho proposed regatta at Lake Maxinknekee is off. The oarsmen, H onion Lee, Gaudaur, and others wanted too ranch guarantee. A subscription of nearly $1,000 had been secured, 1 ut this would not b half enough to satisfy the party of oarsmen now traveling abo at the country. A 5 -year-old boy was found with hia
head between two palings, dead, a short time since, at his home near Otisco, Clark County. He wandered from the house, and the general supposition is that he went to climb over the fence, when hia foot slipped and he fell between the padinge and broke his neck. Ths identity of tbe wild animal that
has caused so much alarm ia a neighbor
hood immediately northwest of Washington for some time past has be.sn established. The animal is a large specimen of the North American tiger oicatemount. Two hunters obtained a shot at th e animal, hut failed to kill it. A 9-year-old boy, living near 'Wheatlane, met with a peculiar accident that earned his death. He was taking a borrowed pitchfork home, and was pushing it before aim on tlio ground, when the tines caught in a stump, causing the handle to strike him in the abdomen, and rapturing the bladder. The boiler iu the tile factory niikmee south of Veedersburg, burst recently. The enffineerand one other man was serionOy injured. The cause of the ex-, plosion was a defective fine. The main portion of the boiler was found 150 rods away, f nd the factory was liodly wrecked. A colored lad 12 years of age.jand suppose! to be a bootblack from Indianapolis, fell in company with several other boys at Ediubcrg, and went to the river, where they Re t him dmnk. Returning to town, be was badly beaten by some unknown person and left in a critical condition. A jam near Sullivan was burned recently. The lire is supposed to have bests caused by tho spontaneous combustion ot new ba. Five horses were burned to death, three of which belonged to a neighbor. 'Che total loss is $2,&H); insured tor $1,000. H ere is an epidemic of horse-stealing' throng a the counties of Northern Indiana.
and Southern Michigan. Livery
the worst sufferers. A game-protection society has been form ic at Cedar Lake with n view of putting a stop to the illegal killing of fish and prairie chickens. The United States Fish Commission
has re 'entlv stocked the lakes in Steuben Court; .' with fish. California trout are aniot'e the kinds used, and a large number ni. lasuring five and six i aches in length have teen placed in the different lakes. A bout forty of the Grard Ledge of tits
Broth whood of Hallway Poatal Clerks
at Indianapolis recently. The object is to aecuic from the Department assurances that sfflcient employes will not be dlachargod for political reasons only. 1' he Goshen Cadets have been mustered into I lie State service. The premium lists of the third annual fair of the Fairuiount Union Joint-stock. Agric lltural Association arc out. Tbe fair is to lie held five days Uiis year, beginning Septo tuber SO, and continuing until the 21 tb, inclusive. 1 he Board of Commissioners of Clay Coun ;y, at their last session, made an order directing the Auditor to draw m eountj' warrant in favor of the Stat
Soldi ;rs' Monumental AssocUtton fee $100;
1 he 15-year-old son of the Huperhlitendoc t of tho Jefferson'rflle gas Woxk
was accidentally shot in (he stomach hand ing a piutol, v
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